Early March Update

[teyrnon]

I'm still somewhat offline as I write this. The frequency of the power outages seems to be increasing. I'm not sure what to make of the weird behavior of the UPS. Whenever there's a glitch it won't let me power anything up off it for several hours. Exceedingly annoying. If it's not working shouldn't just not work? Since my UPS has of late been my powerstrip plugging into the wall directly doesn't afford me enough outlets.This room has a shockingly limited number of outlets.

At anyrate measurements have been taken and the needed batteries have been identified and will very soon be ordered. Knock on wood.I figure in about two weeks everything will be back up and running.

In the meantime I'll be catching up on a little reading. Speaking of which could I get some book recommendations for cool things I might not have read yet? Which pretty well means anything published in the last four or five years, really. In particular I'm interested in any new space opera and urban fantasy novels.

Comments

[jigsawdiva.livejournal.com]

Can you clarify "urban fantasy"? Like Dresden Files or Shadowrun?

[cybermystic.livejournal.com]

Yes, Dresden Files falls under into the urban fantasy category. Shadowrun does too but mixes it with cyberpunk. Much of the vampire porn on the market does as well but not really looking for that particular subset.

[sdaemon.livejournal.com]

miss jigsawdiva introduced me to the Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs. They're fun. Bubblegum, but fun bubblegum.

Forget Briggs

[(Anonymous)]

He needs to read the Merry Gentry books by Laurell K. Hamilton.

Re: Forget Briggs

[cybermystic.livejournal.com]

I read A Kiss of Shadows at someone's insistence. If the rest of the books are as sex obsessed I'll pass on them for now, I think.

[cybermystic.livejournal.com]

I'll have to look for it then.